Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is indeed the case that both of these " new branches " professed an orthodox Arminian theology and regarded themselves as movements within rather than against the Church of England .
2 Similarly , the halt and lame , vividly portrayed in Les invalides in book 2 of the same collection ( 1716–17 ) , are surely destined to proceed slowly rather than at the ‘ fast triple time ’ suggested by Geoffrey Chew in the article ‘ Notation ’ ( 111 , 4 ) in New Grove , where the opening bars of this piece are reproduced in facsimile ( xiii , p.376 ) .
3 But because it is beside rather than in the Pyrenees , the Basque Coast has a gentler climate than you might expect , with an average temperature over the whole year of nearly 14° Centigrade — almost as good as you will find in Portugal .
4 If , as was proposed , denominational schools should have a choice of status — effectively inside or outside the fully provided and supported system — what should happen in those districts where the only school was a Church school ?
5 Since the QT Meeting on the 7th has indicated that she is feeling a little better and for the time being is willing to continue as the Teachers ' Representative , however , it is possible that in the future she may require assistance to carry out her duties .
6 Whilst the typewriter is still the dominant method of putting words onto paper the ubiquitous word processor marches inexorably onward and by the time this decade ends the majority of published material will at least be electronically created .
7 Sometimes you are more touched by a book that seems to belong to you alone rather than to the world .
8 Experience shows that dieters very often prefer to eat alone rather than at the family table contrary to the exhortation ‘ make this for the family too ’ beloved by diet experts .
9 Carers generally operate alone rather than in a large network and , as noted earlier , they are not a single group .
10 Thus , in moral deliberation it is not necessarily a confusion of validity and truth to give weight to the way in which a decision is reached as well as or perhaps rather than to the content of the decision reached .
11 The questionable legality of the move may explain why two of the earliest confiscations were authorized by Gloucester personally rather than in the king 's name .
12 The questionable legality of the move may explain why two of the earliest confiscations were authorized by Gloucester personally rather than in the king 's name .
13 I think he could cope all right but at the back of his mind will always be the fact that possibly he let the party down .
14 The angels said it would be all right and for the first time , she thought , What if it is n't ?
15 ‘ I think lawyers have been too much looking from the law outwards rather than as a client looking at the law from the outside .
16 A boxer before the war , Charles Nungesser had been smashed up so badly that by the time of Verdun he had to be lifted bodily into the cockpit and could only use one leg on the rudder controls .
17 The attitude of some bondholders previously willing to surrender their bonds modified on learning of this privilege which they were previously and largely unaware of in connection with redemption , so much so that of the 47 bonds bought out , 24 holders elected to enjoy perpetual membership .
18 The sense of disappointment was as sharp as a blow , painful out of all proportion , so much so that for a moment I was almost angry with him for not being there .
19 Cricket lore was handed down from Yorkshire dad to lad , so much so that in the end the family history itself was the enemy .
20 To make matters even more wretched than they already were , Celia cried both day and night and because of Liza 's deepening depression Harriet found it was she who was forced to bear the brunt of this , so much so that after a while she simply swept up baby and cot and took them into her own bedroom .
21 The PLO rather than Jordan reaped the fruit , so much so that after the collapse of the Jordanian-PLO accord in 1986 many Village Leaguers were rehabilitated in Jordanian eyes .
22 However , as knowledge becomes increasingly use-specific , its portability declines , perhaps so much so that by the time it is embodied in a specific new product it can only spill over to producers of very similar substitute products .
23 They attracted increased attention soon after the Roman conquest , so much so that by the end of the first century the great sanctuary and classical temple dedicated to Sulis Minerva , together with the bathing establishment , had been fully developed .
24 The amount of time , officer time taken to process an application for a modification to an existing permission is still substantial and in some cases can be even more than that per a new proposal , but in those circumstances , and this is just by way of illustration because the the actual fee regime is , is very variable , by way of illustration the fee chargeable for a a , a modification is much less than for the application as a whole er f for , for the er er working as a whole .
25 " Nowhere " , he wrote , is there so much and at the same time so little centralization as there is in Russia .
26 In fact , during pregnancy , she becomes able to ingest and utilise more of the necessary substance than is required by the child alone so that by the end of pregnancy she will be better off for such substances as nitrogen , calcium etc. than she was at the beginning .
27 Also , at the 1982 Annual General Meeting the members rejected with increasing self-assertiveness the demand for increased subscriptions — perhaps less because of the cost but more to demonstrate their new confidence .
28 On the other hand , tasks of party management and maintaining Cabinet cohesion are more insistent , though perhaps less so than for a German Chancellor or Italian Premier .
29 Though large families are less widespread in the twentieth century , the large family still remains vulnerable to poverty , if relatively less so than in the nineteenth century .
30 But if the idea of this procedure is simple , the practice is much less so because of the problems involved .
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